A teenage girl is in a serious condition after being hit by a car in Newport .

Malpas Road was closed for over two hours on Wednesday following the incident.

A spokesman for Welsh Ambulance Service said: "We were called at about 4.30pm on Wednesday February 1 to reports that a pedestrian had been hit by a car on Malpas Road in Newport.

"We sent two paramedics in rapid response vehicles, a crew in an emergency ambulance, an Emergency Medical Retrieval and Transfer Service rapid response vehicle and two BASICS doctors to the scene and a teenage girl was taken to the University Hospital of Wales in a serious condition."